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Originally Posted by jrsygal37  I explained that the vet was not our regular vet at the hospital. He was the one there at the time I called. I agree the shots should not have been given, however I do not think it caused her to be sick. She was sick, and in defense of him and again not condoning his giving the shots but in defense Mia did not appear to be terribly sick. She had a cough and she had ear infections but otherwise displayed being a normal puppy. She just wasn't combating it and at night she appeared to be worse then she had been. I have not brought her back to that vet. I have the two other vets that I use regularly and have used for 15 years taking care of her. I do agree she should not have been given the shots and did ask him about them prior but was assured they would be fine. Elaine |
I think she read that. I think she means that she doesn't understand why a vet would vaccinate even if the dog appears only
slightly sick. The first vet I went to also said to me that it was only a couple days before the distemper shot so we will go ahead and do it, along with the bordatella and lepto shot. The vet even said to me that lepto was prevalent in our area so I believed her. She was about to ALSO give him the rabies vaccine when I stopped her and told her my dog was not old enough for the vaccine. She then corrected herself and said that it was a clerical error and that the front office staff probably just wrote Teddy's age wrong. I believed her and I let her give my dog all those vaccines at once. I knew that the lepto vaccine was iffy but I read that if its prevalent in your area then the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the costs. Yeah well, the joke was on me because when I went to another vet they told me that they do not vaccinate for lepto because it is extremely uncommon even in our area and that he believes that the vaccine does more harm than good...so who knows what the right answer is? All I know is that ever since I went to the first vet my dog has been coughing and it hasn't stopped.